I paint with my back to the world
AGNES MARTINTo progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
More Agnes Martin Quotes
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Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.
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They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
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To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like.
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Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.
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Give up doing the things that you do not like to do.
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There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.
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There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.
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A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.
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That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.
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I’m very careful not to have ideas, because they’re inaccurate.
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The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.
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What I say is that we’re capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.
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Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
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What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy.
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It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up,It rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes
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